Meanings of languish in prison in English

No one has yet been hanged, but those convicted languish in prison.

To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison.

And the Neapolitan ambassador allows him to languish in prison for such a beggarly sum?

This I must sign, or languish in prison.

The last friend I had in the world has been torn from me, to languish in prison.

For if you can, indeed, establish the identity you claim, why should you languish in prison for some weeks?

Himself and a twin brother, when scarcely fifteen, were taken prisoners at Tewkesbury, and for three years left to languish in prison.

Might I not be consigned to languish in prison as a merely clever German spy, or be consigned to an insanity ward?

A holder of a master's degree in geopolitics and indefinitely detained since 2013, the Kurdish journalist, Behrouz Boochani, has refused to languish in prison.

To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison, he wrote in September 2017, referring to intellectuals, activists and clerics arrested under Prince Mohammed.

Thousands of victims fall into the hands of the authorities and languish in prisons.

If Clarke is to lie languishing in prison, let me lie there with him.

Hundreds of potentially innocent people are languishing in prison.

For two and a half years he had languished in prison, awaiting his inevitable fate.

They are now languishing in prisons and face trial.

Returned to Saudi Arabia, she was formally detained in May and has languished in prison since.